Book #1 -History of
The Virginia Company of London
With Letters To and From the First Colony
Never Printed Before
By Edward D. Neill, 1869
445 pages, indexed and searchable
 
Book #2 Virginia Vetusta
During the Reign of James I
Containing Letters & Documents Never Before Printed
A Supplement to The History of the Virginia Company
By Edward D. Neill, 1885

216 pages, indexed

 

Book #3 Virginia Carolorum

The Colony Under the Rule of Charles the First & Second 1615-85

By Edward D. Neill, 1886

450 pages, indexed

 

 

Bonus Book -  An Introduction To

The Records of the Virginia Company of London

With a Bibliographical List of Extant Documents

By Susan M. Kingsbury

200+ pages, published 1905

 

 

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The Virginia Company was formed with a charter from King James I in 1606. The Company was a joint stock corporation charged with the settlement of Virginia. It had the power to appoint the Council of Virginia, the Governor and other officials, and the responsibility to provide settlers, supplies and ships for the venture. The initial reaction to the Company was favorable but as the mortality rate rose and the prospect for profit grew dim, the support for it waned. The leadership resorted to lotteries, searching for gold, and silkworm production to increase profits. The charter was finally revoked in 1624 and Virginia became a Crown colony, largely as a result of the Indian Massacre of 1622. 

On the 15th of July 1624 the King ordered all papers of the Virginia Company to be given to a Commission for review.  
Repeated searches have been made for them in England, but they have not been discovered. 
 
Earlier, when the king first resolved to destroy the charter of the Virginia Company, an attempt was made to obtain 
the records by their opponents. A clerk of Collingwood was immediately secured as copyist, and, to preclude discovery,
 was locked up in a room of a house, while he transcribed the minutes. 
 
After the transactions were copied on folio paper, to prevent interpolation, each page carefully compared with the
 originals by Collingwood and then subscribed "Con. Collingwood,". Danvers took them to the President of the Company, 
Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. The Earl was highly gratified in the possession of a duplicate copy of the
 Company’s transactions, and expressed it by throwing his arms around the neck of Sir John, and then turning to 
his brother, said " Let them be kept at my house at Tichfield ; they are the evidences of my honor, and I value them
 more than the evidences of my lands." 
 
During the same year Southampton died; and Thomas, his son, was heir and successor to the title, and became
 Lord High Treasurer of England, and lived until 1667. Shortly after the death of the latter, William Byrd of 
Virginia, the father of Hon. William Byrd of Westover, purchased the manuscript records from the executors
 of the Earl for sixty guineas. 
 
Rev. William Stith, who subsequently became President of William and Mary College, while living at Varina, 
on James river, the old settlement of Sir Thomas Dale, better known since the civil war as Dutch Gap, obtained 
these records from the Byrd library at Westover; and most of the material of his History of Virginia, completed 
in 1746, was drawn therefrom. 
 
Stith's brother-in-law, Peyton Randolph, became the first President of the Continental Congress, and while 
visiting a friend at his seat near Philadelphia, in October, 1776, suddenly died. When his library was sold it 
was purchased by Thomas Jefferson, and among the books were the manuscript records of the London Company, 
that had been used by Stith. 
 
The United States having purchased the books of President Jefferson, these manuscripts are now preserved in 
the library of Congress. They are bound in two volumes, and contain the Company's transactions from April 28, 1619, 
until June 7, 1624. 
 
This book by Neill draws from those transcribed papers.
 
CONTENTS - History of the Virginia Company of London. 
 CHAPTER I. Transactions during the Period of First Charter 1 
CHAPTER II. The Period of the Second Charter 23 
CHAPTER III. Last Charter ; The Bermudas ; Stage Plays ; Lotteries 53  
CHAPTER IV. Sir Thomas Dale 73
CHAPTER V. Pocahontas and Companions 83 
CHAPTER VI. Rolfe's Relation 106 
CHAPTER VII. Argall’s Administration 113
CHAPTER VIII. Leyden Puritans   122 
CHAPTER IX. Administration of Governor Yeardley   134 
CHAPTER X. The Company Under Directorship of Sir Edwin Sandys 143 
CHAPTER XI. First Year of Earl of Southampton's Directorship, 192 
CHAPTER XII. Second Year of Earl of Southampton's Directorship, .218 
CHAPTER XIII. Third Year of Earl of Southampton's Directorship, .299 
CHAPTER XIV. The Great Massacre, 317 
CHAPTER XV. Waterhouse's Relation, and List of Slain 334 
CHAPTER XVI. Continuation of Earl of Southampton's Directorship 347 
CHAPTER XVII. Dissolution of the Company, 385

 

 

Contents - Virginia Vetusta

CHAPTER I. Events Leading to Organization of Virginia Company. ... 1

CHAPTER II. FIRST COUNCIL IN Virginia ; Notices of Early Colonists ; Affairs AT Jamestown A. D. 1007 to A. D. 1609 7

CHAPTER III Virginia Affairs in England ; Letter of Newport ; First Report OF Council in Virginia; Reasons for a Public Stock; King's Council for Virginia ; Early Publication 24

CHAPTER IV. Public Collections for Virginia; Crakanthorpe's Sermon; Discourse of Symonds ; A Good Speed to Virginia ; Second Charter; King's Councillors for Virginia; Sermon of Daniel Price ; Publication of Nova Britannia ; Gates and Sombrs Expedition. . . , . 85

CHAPTER V. A Declaration; Crashaw's Sermon; Letter of Sir George Sombrs ; Rhymes of R. Rich ; Confutation of Scandals. ... 56

CHAPTER VI. Second Expedition under Gates; Letters of Virginia Company AND Sir Edwin Sandys. 66

CHAPTER VII Lord Delaware's Sickness; Letters of Sir Thomas Dale and George Percy 75

CHAPTER VIII. Charter of 1611-12 ; King's Council for Virginia ; Letter op Sir Edwin Sandys ; Publications in A. D. 1612 ; SoioRS Island Company 87

CHAPTER IX. Later Career of Newport, Dale, Gates, Argall and John Smith. 98

CHARTER X. Transportation op Worthless Adults and Poor Children. . . 101

CHAPTER XL Affairs of the Northern Colony ; Voyage of Edward Brawnde ; Puritan Colonists Intended por the Southern Colony settle AT Plymouth, Mass 105

CHAPTER XII Administration op Governor Yeardley ; Meeting op the First Legislature ; Introduction of Negro Slavery 110

CHAPTER XIII Gov. Wyatt's Administration; Massacre, Sickness and Famine; Letters of George Sandys, Lady Wyatt, William Capps. . . 118

CHAPTER XIV. Sermons op Patrick Copland and John Donne before Virginia Company 184

CHAPTER XV. John Rolphe and his White Wives. 140

CHAPTER XVI. Affairs op the Company in London A. D. 1623, until the Abrogation OF Charter; Letter of Earl of Middlesex; Disputes; A Ballad ; Letter of John Bargrave 144

CHAPTER XVII Religious and Educational Efforts; Ministers Richard Buck, Poole, Glover, Alexander Whitaker, Willlam Wickham, William Mease ; Collections in England for College for Indians

CONTENTS. XVIII Legacy of Mary Robinson; Report on Projected College; Legacy of Five Hundred Pounds; Ministers George Keith, Thoicas Bargraye, David Sands, Jonas Stockton, Robert Paulbtt, Hawte Wyatt, Francis Bolton, William Bennett, Thomas White, William Leate, Grevillb Pooley ; Firbt English Free School Projected ; Legacy qp George Ruggle ; University AND School op Art Projected ; Lewis Hughes ; Patrick Copland in Bermudas 168

APPENDIX. Privy Council on Lottery ; Letter op Virginia Company to City of Salisbury ; The Affair of the Ship ' Treasurer ; " Letter of Baldwin on Early Colonists; Liturgy of Lewis Hughes; Gov. Butler's Liturgy. . . . , 199

 

Contents - Virginia Vetusta (Post-Va. Company)
CHAPTER I. PROM THE ABROGATION OF THE LONDON COMPANY'S CHARTER TO THE DEATH OF GOVERNOR YEARDLEY.
CHAPTER II. AFFAIRS FROM A. D., 1628 TO 1630.
CHAPTER III. EVENTS FROM A.D. 1630 TO A.D., 1684. Governor Harvey's Arrival
CHAPTER IV. AFFAIRS FROM A.D. 1634 TO A.D. 1638.
CHAPTER V. PRINCIPAL OCCURENCES FROM A.D. 1838 TO A. D., 1M8
CHAPTER VI. AFFAIRS FROM A.D., 1642 TO A.D., 1651. Arrival of Gov. Berkeley.
CHAPTER VII. UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH OF ENGLAND, 1652 - 1660.
CHAPTER VIII. FROM THE RESTORATION OF CHARLES THE SECOND
CHAPTER IX. AFFAIRS FROM A.D., 1672 TO A.D., 1085. Governor Berkeley's Irritability.

APPENDIX

INDEX AND ERRATA

 

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